PrenticeNet is organized into various sections that hopefully allow you to find the information you're looking for. There are 5 main sections to the website:
- Home .. provides links and information that relate to the website in general.
- People .. offers information about specific people and their families, as well as information such as birth, marriage, and death records.
- Places .. has information about locations such as cemeteries, buildings, houses, as well as cities, towns, and other geographical points of interest.
- Things .. contains information on miscelaneous Prentice items. It is also the home for the "Prentice Museum," which provides images and descriptions of items that were made by Prentices or have some Prentice connection.
- Newsletter .. is the repository for the Prentice Newsletter which is edited and maintained by long time Prentice researcher, L.J. Dewald.
The layout of the website is divided into three vertical columns. The left-most column is the navigation area, which provides the links to the pages within each section. At the top of the navigation area is a two-tabbed panel labeled Browse and Search. The links on the Browse tab will change for each section and page, allowing you to visit related pages. The Search tab lets you search for specific keywords within a selected section or the whole site. The search results will remain available until you enter a new search query. Below the Browse/Search panel is a panel that provides links to the most recent Prentice Newsletter topics.
The middle column provides the main content for each page. If you want to print a page, choose the "Print View" link to make the left and right columns to disappear allowing you to print just the content for that topic. At the bottom of most pages you'll find a comments area. This allows PrenticeNet members to add comments to pages as appropriate. A comment can be anything that you feel is relevant to the page. It may be a note with additional information, or a link to another website that has related information. Members can edit or delete their own comments, and visitors can click a link to the left of each comment that lets them send a message to the person who made the comment.
The right-most column provides a panel that lists three randonly selected queries from the past year. These queries will change each time you visit a new page. This column also contains a panel that lists the recent comments that have been added to pages throughout the site. A third panel in this column displays featured items from the Prentice Museum. If you are working on a low resolution screen and would like to remove the right column, click the [<] image at the top of the column.
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